Last night, I went out with some friends to watch the eclipse. Through some miscommunication (or misunderstanding) we all ended up in different places instead. Either way, we all had fun watching the eclipse.
Just as I got to the spot I thought we needed to be, the moon started coming up over the peaks of Zion National Park. It was pretty cloudy at the time, so I put my equipment together pretty quickly and started shooting.
I was using my 500mm lens, which is a fixed f8 and manual focus lens, which is extremely difficult to focus on something that you can’t see in the view finder, i.e., an eclipsed moon. On top of that, I require glasses, and what I see focused in the view finder (and on the screen) may not be in focus for me but not everyone else. On top of that, I was using ISO1600 which is pretty noisy especially in night photography. So, as you can see, the images aren’t exactly what I was hoping for.
The crazy part is the images look in focus on the thumbnails but not in full size. Figure that one out. Any suggestions would be helpful, btw.
On the upside of all this, I was able to document the entire eclipse from beginning to end. I had fun and enjoyed myself. Enjoy.
Kelly
Kelly Guymon Photography 